Understanding food structuring and breakdown: engineering approaches to obesity
Understanding food structuring and breakdown: engineering approaches to obesity
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了解食物结构和分解:肥胖的工程方法
DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-789x.2007.00324.x
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发表时间:
2007
期刊:
影响因子:
8.9
通讯作者:
P. Fryer
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文献类型:
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作者:
I. Norton;S. Moore;P. Fryer
Many of the processing operations of the food industryhave been undertaken for millennia and many of the prob-lems are equally old. For example, Garnsey points out thatin classical Rome, most of the population ate cheap meatfrom roadside stalls or taverns, rather than cooking itthemselves (1).Many food products are structurally complex. Thisstructure, and its breakdown in the mouth, determines thetaste, texture and eating pleasure of each product. Theirmanufacture is also complex. For example, bread involvesthe creation of microstructure, coupled with heat andmass transfer, and the flow and deformation of highly non-Newtonian materials of which our engineering understand-ing is limited (2). Food products need to be metastable todeliver taste and flavour on consumption. For example, theconfectionary fats in chocolate are highly polyphasic, withsix polymorphs melting within 20 ° C of one another, andthe form that the consumer enjoys is not the thermodynam-ically stable one (3).To make these products efficiently, a combined under-standing of chemistry and material science is needed,together with knowledge of how the processing the mate-rial receives affects its structure, chemistry and attractive-ness. This type of understanding can be used to developstructured foods that are inherently more healthy.It is our hypothesis that one way forward will be for thefood manufacturer to encourage a change in lifestyle andto develop the next generation of foods, designed to beconvenient, cheap, nutritionally balanced and enjoyable toeat. These foods will be structured in such a way as tocontrol the rate of release of macronutrients and slow therate of the stomach emptying, thus limiting the amount offood that people consume. We have recently discussed theways in which food science and engineering might be usedto develop healthier foods (4). Here, we suggest howenhanced understanding of food structuring and break-
影响因子:
7.7
作者:
Liu, SM;Lee, IM;Manson, JE
通讯作者:
Manson, JE